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| Presdent Obama Donated $250,000 of Nobel Prize Money to Fisher House |
March 11, 2010, Washington, DC (New York Times) - President Obama made good on his promise to give his $1.4 million Nobel Prize money to charity, releasing the names on Thursday of the organizations that will benefit. |
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| Philanthropist Bobby Willis to Build New $3.3 Billion Hospital for VA in Farmington, NM for Rural and Native American Veterans |
Proposed state-of-the-art Kirtland veterans clinic could provide as many as 8,000 jobs March 14, 2010, Farmington, New Mexico (Farmington Daily Times) — A proposed veterans complex in Kirtland centered around a new hospital, backed by a wealthy entrepreneur and costing an estimated $3.3 billion promises to bring state-of-the-art medicine and other benefits to veterans, as well as 8,000 jobs to the local economy. |
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| Dr. Haley at UTSW Presents Compelling Brain Images Showing Gulf War Illness |
VCS Asks VA: Since UTSW Research Remains Vital to Understanding Gulf War Illness, Then Why Did a Handful of VA Staff in Washington Impede UTSW Contract and Then End Funding for UTSW? March 9, 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah (Science News) - Nearly two decades after vets began returning from the Middle East complaining of Gulf War Syndrome, the federal government has yet to formally accept that their vague jumble of symptoms constitutes a legitimate illness. Here, at the Society of Toxicology annual meeting, yesterday, researchers rolled out a host of brain images – various types of magnetic-resonance scans and brain-wave measurements – that they say graphically and unambiguously depict Gulf War Syndrome. |
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| March 9 VCS Weekly Update |
This week’s VCS update keeps you in the loop with news on issues you care about. One good change – our weekly news updates won’t ask you for money. Instead, our news updates point you to news articles at our web site. We hope you will read them and share the important facts with your friends. This week's update includes news about VA and suicides, VCS on CNN, our VCS FOIA campaign, VA automating Agent Orange claims, a waterboarding torture video, and Gulf War veterans' benefits. |
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| Federal Court Keeps Torture Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld Alive |
What's Waterboarding? Watch Video of Torture March 5, 2010, Chicago, Illinois (Associated Press) - A federal judge refused Friday to dismiss a civil lawsuit accusing former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsibility for the alleged torture by U.S. forces of two Americans who worked for an Iraqi contracting firm. [Rumsfeld served at the Pentagon under former President George W. Bush.] |
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Salon Investigation: Corruption at Arlington National Cemetery
Written by Mark Benjamin
Thursday, 12 November 2009 16:55
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Salon magazine's first class investigative journalist, Mark Benjamin, wrote a dozen stories documenting corruption at Arlington National Cemetery. Veterans for Common Sense asks the Secretary Gates, the national media, and Congress to investigate this issue. July 16, 2009: Grave offenses at Arlington National Cemetery. A criminal investigation and allegations of misplaced bodies and shoddy care have roiled the famous burial ground. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/16/arlington_national_cemetery/ July 17, 2009: What's trashed at Arlington National Cemetery. Many personal mementos of dead soldiers are being thrown out -- a stark contrast to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/17/arlington_gravesites/index.html July 20, 2009: A grave record from Arlington. The document saying of Grave 449, "CASKET IN GRAVE REMAINS UNKNOWN." http://www.salon.com/news/primary_sources/2009/07/20/arlington_document/index.html July 21, 2009: Arlington's buried secrets. The cemetery admits it can't identify grave-site remains -- while new evidence casts doubt on Army investigation. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/21/arlington_secrets/ July 29, 2009: Army will investigate Arlington National Cemetery. After a Salon series exposes problems at the cemetery, the Army says it will investigate. But workers have doubts. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/07/29/arlington/ August 10, 2009: Why did Arlington National Cemetery rehire Bobbie Garrett? Garrett was investigated for fraud while working as a contractor for the cemetery. Why did he get his job back? http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/10/arlington/ August 11, 2009: Did Arlington National Cemetery break the law? The cemetery sent the personal data of deceased soldiers to a contractor at the center of a fraud scandal. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/11/arlington/ August 14, 2009: Contractor in Arlington fraud scandal arrested. Arlington National Cemetery contractor Bobbie Garrett was arrested on sex charges as he stepped off a plane in Ohio. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/08/14/arlington/index.html September 29, 2009: Millions in contracts, no work completed. An Arlington National Cemetery official keeps sending work to the same small group of associates, with few results. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/29/arlington_contracts/index.html October 7, 2009: Arlington unveils a new unknown soldier. The first headstone stamped "Unknown" since 1984 is the result not of war's chaos, but of human error. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/10/07/arlington_cemetery/ November 2, 2009: More misplaced remains at Arlington National Cemetery. What happened to Master Sgt. Marion Grabe, says a source, is a clue "that there may be thousands of these problems." http://www.salon.com/news/arlington_national_cemetary_investigation/index.html?story=/news/feature/2009/11/01/arlington_national_cemetery November 5, 2009: Arlington officials can't get their stories straight. The superintendent says he may have been absent when remains were moved, but an employee's log says otherwise. |